[ExI] Physics versus psychology

[BillK]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Richard Loosemore  wrote:
> a)  There are probably a few hundred multi-million-dollar brain scanning
> machines in use by psychologists, worldwide.
>
> b) Cognitive psychologists like myself will soon be needing (and within the
> next ten years we will probably be *getting*) some seriously large
> supercomputers.  In fact, I would not be surprised if you find that within
> the next ten years the use of supercomputers by a new branch of the
> psychology community starts to overtake all other uses (because this new
> branch will be a hybrid of psychology and AI).
>



Brain scanning machines are used by neuroscientists.
Wikipedia:
The techniques used by neuroscientists have also expanded enormously,
from biophysical and molecular studies of individual nerve cells to
imaging of perceptual and motor tasks in the brain. Recent theoretical
advances in neuroscience have also been aided by the study of neural
networks.


BillK